Pale Moonlight · Dayseeker

68 bars, 3:36, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 10-16 and 26-27, and 1 more place -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
PALE MOONLIGHT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 43, 47, 49, 51 and 4 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART M
PART D
PART T
PART V
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesADTVF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pale Moonlight?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pale Moonlight hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pale Moonlight?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 43, 47, 49, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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